Sure, layer in the cyclical expansion of restaurants and breweries/wineries that fed on cheap interest rates/loans and combine it with Portland being one of the harder-hit cities with COVID foot traffic changed as well as one of the least affordable cities(wages vs. COL) in the nation and you’re bound to see pullback in discretionary spending and F&B are among the first things to be cut–especially at the prices they want to charge in Portland.

Anything but having the rich pay their share. Anything but that.

Surprising no one. Easy money spigot (low fed interest rates) turned off in 2022 after nearly 15 years of unprecedented low rates, which is the lifeblood of new enterprise so it’s expected the new openings would decrease. During that 1t years there were also lots of new enterprises that should never have been, but with money that cheap certain things were risked or penciled out at the time.

Combine that with the insanity of trying to run a business in the utter chaos and instability of the last 18 months, it’s no wonder businesses are closing at higher rates.

The acting was good, the script was ok, I had just read and learned so much about it all in 08-12 I was over it by the time Hollywood and the rest of the world got around to engaging with it.

Margin call I watched a few years ago and also liked.

Never seen or heard of these, I’m American, you? These indeed would have been amazing as a kid.

Europe ain’t my rope to swing on

Can’t learn a thing from it

Yet we hang from it

In the mortgage collapse that drove the world economy to the brink, the ratings agencies were rating dogshit in catshit as AAA, they certainly didn’t give it something more appropriate like BBB-. There was a good scene where Burry (played by Carrell) went to fitch and asked them why they hadn’t changed the rating on the MBS(shit sandwich) when the underlying mortgages were worth zero. The Fitch person said they didn’t feel the need to. They were of course being paid–and still are–by the companies they rate.

Yeah but widdle billionaire needs public funding so he can sell more boxes to corporate overlords for higher margin, and the general public, who can barely afford the time let alone the money to attend this private event are supposed to shoulder the cost?

Fuck right off.

Yep, they paid a class action lawsuit for anticompetitive behavior for exactly this, but it was long ago. It surely still happens, but they may not be stupid enough, at this one particular company, to put it in an email anymore.

The new “bi-party affordable housing bill” that became law today is largely aimed at removing regulations and requirements on modular/manufactured housing. It adds–get this–a new special mortgage for affordable housing under 100k. I mean, short of Marty McFly, no one is able to buy more than a doghouse for 100k. This is the kind of shit that passes with “strong support”. Rather than build shared, affordable, efficient housing, a lobby yet again wrote a bill that won’t help much or many.

It’s unbelievable what people have already allowed, why not go for it if you’re meta?

Will enforcement though? What they’re doing is illegal under existing law but there is no enforcement because the criminals are backed by incredible wealth. Until there are consequences, it won’t get better with a new law or policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper_spray_incident

This exactly covers the main issue. Much damage has already been done that the average person is just supposed to eat? Bullshit.

“on the plus side, it’s backward, violent and is growing moreso daily.”

Who wouldn’t want to endure that for $179 round trip?

He used “median” when playing shows for the upper intelligence half.

Kidding.

Nah, that dude deserves slower. Put him in a transparent glass box with 10,000 female mosquitos. Naked. A plain mattress. No bedding, no pillow, nothing to block or kill the mosquitos. Add more mosquitos every few weeks. Feed him well but he will be alive and otherwise healthy. unless of course he gets some of those mosquitos that will lay eggs under the skin or near orifices of their host, that would be a real shame.

His every waking moment will be torture.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Bah gawd it’s T-Mac’s music, he’s suiting up too along with Kwahi and VC!

Mare-wage is what bwings us together twoday!